Dr Abhishek Asthana FIET, CEng, FHEA, PhD, MEng, MRes, BEng

Summary

Since joining the university in 2009, Abhishek has delivered 45 industrial projects of energy research, knowledge transfer and consultancy, winning external funding of £2 Million. He has developed 5 commercial software packages and is the inventor of 4 patents.

Abhishek started teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in 2004 as an Associate Lecturer at Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France), in 2007 at the University of Sheffield and in 2009 at Sheffield Hallam University. At Sheffield Hallam, Abhishek has developed, delivered and led 19 modules and 4 new courses using his experience in industry and consultancy. He is currently the course leader for 3 engineering courses including the award winning Energy Engineering course. He has supervised 61 MSc dissertations and 37 BEng final year projects. Three of his current modules have been rated the best modules on the entire course by postgraduate and undergraduate students.

New Courses Developed

BEng Energy Engineering(Currently the Course Leader).

This has been one of the most popular courses in the faculty, achieving more than 90% satisfaction ratings from students and winning the faculty course award every year from 2011 to 2015.

Since joining Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) in 2009 Abhishek has won external funding of £2 million total, has led 45 industrial projects of research, knowledge transfer and consultancy, developed 5 commercial software packages, is the author of 19 journal and conference papers and the inventor of 4 patents. In 2009, Abhishek co-founded Hallam Energy, a new consultancy venture in the Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI) and now leads the group as its Deputy Director.

Summary of External Income Generation

£1,215,000 from 3 research projects funded by Innovate UK and the Government of India.

£252,000 from 36 consultancy projects funded by EU and UK industry, local authorities, Innovate UK and Business Link.